Episode 9 – Famous Under Heaven Chapter 48 – Taking Charge

In the afternoon, that blazing sun hung in the west, a fiery gas a Black Earth City, that brigade of city guards of Black Earth City was lazily and casually patrolling in Black Earth City, and there were some poor warriors who stood on the city wall basking in the sun.

“This damn weather, it’s hot as hell in the daytime, and it’s cold as hell when we wait until nighttime!” A big burly man in tattered armor was cursing in a low voice, beside him were nine other companions, they were one of the small sub-groups of the city guard brigade.

Some of the surrounding civilians saw these soldiers and backed away from them in some fear.

Seeing this scene, one of the soldiers cursed in a low voice, “Hanging out under that greedy fat pig, some of my elders despise me yet, that fat pig is so greedy!”

“Damn, if it wasn’t for the sake of feeding my son and wife, I wouldn’t have come to do this!” The warriors next to him similarly chimed in.

In Black Earth City, that obese city lord had a very bad reputation indeed, these warriors who had joined the army in order to feed their families or themselves had similarly cursed that abominable city lord in secret, but they didn’t dare to rebel because that city lord had a powerful and overbearing son, who was rumored to be at the peak of the seventh level, and this kind of strength already had the strength to be a king and a hegemon in an ordinary small city.

“Hyah, hyah!” A knight on a steed not far away quickly rushed over, and when he saw this small group in front of him, he immediately shouted, “Brothers, quickly go and pay your respects to the New City Lord. That greedy fat pig is already dead! Quickly go and pay your respects to the New City Lord!”

The ten people in this small detachment were stunned and looked at each other, then they all laughed out loud in excitement.

“Haha …… Quickly, go to the City Lord’s mansion.”

In a place like the Collar of Chaos, the people were the ones who barely had a sense of belonging. This month it was this person who was the city lord, and next month it might become another person. The populace didn’t have high demands. They just wanted to be able to have enough to eat and have a family that wasn’t hungry.

Black Earth City’s City Lord’s Mansion could be considered a city within a city.

The entire Black Earth City’s army consisted of two high establishment brigades, each with 1,800 men. One of the brigades was the city guards. The other brigade was the City Lord’s personal guards. Using half of the army to protect the city lord’s residence, one could imagine the city lord’s fear of death.

The City Lord’s Mansion had gathered a large number of soldiers at the moment, and almost all of the 3600 soldiers had rushed to the City Lord’s Mansion.

The city lord’s mansion could easily accommodate 1800 people, in the wide training ground, Barker five brothers stood in the center of the training ground, the grave muscles, thick as if cast iron body, making these five people like the god of war generally let people look up to. Especially on their backs were the terrifying black battle axes.

The many soldiers stood around in silence.

“Brothers.” A strong man with short blonde hair roared loudly, “That abominable fat pig, as well as his son, have already been chopped into pieces by the giant axes of these five lords. These five lords are all great rank nine powerhouses, invincible rank nine powerhouses!!!”

As soon as the shouts of rank nine powerhouses came out, all the military men were shocked.

“Ninth level powerhouses? A rank nine powerhouse would come to a small town like ours?” Small murmurs rose amongst the military men.

“Peng!” Gates took a step forward, and that aura like that of a demonic god caused those soldiers to take a step back. Gates cracked his mouth wide open and laughed, “Everyone listen to me, from today onwards, Black Earth City is our five brothers’ land. My big brother Buck is the new city lord!”

Gates pulled out the huge axe behind his back. Looking at the group of people around him, “My big brother Barker is the city lord, if any of you have an opinion, you can compete with me!”

Competing with this terrifying God of War-like character?

The son of the city lord who was famous in Black Earth City back then was killed by Gates with an axe to the ground. Of course most of the soldiers here didn’t see that scene. The toughness of the people makes these soldiers look at Gates. Being tall doesn’t necessarily mean you’re strong!

“This giant axe of mine. But it was made by gathering countless precious materials and weighs 5,300 pounds!” Gates casually swung the giant axe, which floated lightly in his hands. The axe chopped on the boulder that was used to lift weights in the distance to exercise his strength.

The over ten thousand pound boulder didn’t move a bit, and the surrounding soldiers were stunned: “Is that axe made of wood with a layer of dye on it?”

“Peng!” The boulder burst open very abruptly, and unexpectedly turned into crushed powder.

The weight was lifted as if it was light!

All the soldiers present were dumbfounded, splitting a ten thousand pound boulder, these soldiers had heard of it, but to make a ten thousand pound boulder turn into crushed powder all of a sudden. This can be more than just strength……. All the soldiers looked at Gates adoringly.

Gates grinned triumphantly, a trick he was used to using in the eighteen duchies of the Northern Domain. A place like the Collar of Chaos worshipped the strong just like the Eighteen Northern Duchies.

“It seems everyone is fine with it.” Gates exclaimed, “Well then, from today onwards, you are all my big brother’s soldiers. Being my big brother’s soldiers has one advantage, from now on, everyone’s military pay will be three times what you used to get!”

Triple military pay?

The surrounding 3,000 soldiers were stunned, but immediately followed by monstrous cheers–

“Long live Lord Barker!”

What could they not be satisfied with, five incredibly powerful strong men and a high military salary, this kind of chief was their favorite.

……

A new city chief had appeared in Black Earth City, this great city chief, Lord Barker, also had four brothers, all five of them were great level 9 powerhouses, and their weapons alone were 5,300 pounds! Having such a powerful chief made the entire populace of Black Earth City cheer.

What excited the populace the most was-

Lord City Lord publicly announced that as long as under his leadership, the people of Black Earth City would never be taxed!

Never taxed! It could almost be called a miracle in the entire Domain of Chaos. After all, without taxes, where would the money come from to support the soldiers? But this dilemma was nothing to Linley. He possessed the terrifying wealth that the Finlay Kingdom had accumulated over thousands of years in the first place.

Taking out a hundred million gold coins at random was absolutely enough.

Chief, high military pay, never taxes …… These three points went down, causing the crowd to quickly form a centripetal force, and they all wanted to live under the rule of such a chief forever. Because of the high military pay, it also makes more people want to join the army. It also made more people wish to join the army.

At the same time, some of the civilians around Black Earth City knew about this, and they all migrated into Black Earth City immediately.

Half a month after Black Earth City changed to a new City Lord.

In the Black Earth City City Lord’s Mansion, the newly elected butler ‘Nemi’ was introducing the mysterious ‘Lord Lei’ about everything in Black Earth City. As the manager of Black Earth City’s trivia nowadays, Nemi knew …… that the nominal lord of Black Earth City was ‘Barker’. In reality, the supreme leader was that mysterious Lord Lei.

“My lord, we have nearly 80,000 residents within the city of Black Earth City, and a large number of townships and other residents around Black Earth City, adding up to a total of more than 700,000 people under the rule of …… Black Earth City. Nowadays the army was also expanding, reaching five brigades. All of them are of a higher establishment, five brigades with a total of nine thousand people.” Nemi said respectfully.

Linley, who was sitting above, heard this. Slightly nodding his head.

“Alright, Nemi, you may stand down.” Barker glanced at him and said.

“Yes, Lord City Lord.” Nemi immediately left respectfully.

Sitting amongst this living room at the moment was Linley and a group of other core members, and according to Sessler, Linley’s group of people’s original plan, it was only said externally that the City Lord was Lord Barker. The name ‘Barker’ was so common that no one else knew who Barker was.

“My lord, you really startled us, casually taking out a magic crystal card is one hundred million gold coins.” Barker said smilingly.

Linley smiled and said, “You don’t have to worry about money!” Back then, Linley. But it was the same as looting thousands of years of accumulation in the Finlay Kingdom.

Sessler, however, said, “Linley, the reason we’re being so kind to the residents of Black Earth City right now is to make it our most solid foundation in the future, so that the people here will absolutely support us! Tax exemptions in one place will be fine …… As for the future, at most low taxes will be imposed. And a country’s operation. To make it form a good cycle, not always have to use external financial resources. It has to be self-sufficient!”

Linley nodded.

“I don’t know much about managing a country or anything. This matter. I’ll leave it to Sessler and Jenny.” Linley smiled and glanced at Jenny. Sessler had also been in charge of a duchy in the Domain of Chaos back in the day, while Jenni had once replaced his brother in charge of Chill County City for a few years when he was there. With regards to management, he was also much more proficient than Linley.

Jenny nodded and smiled, “Big brother Linley, as a chief, you only need to know how to make the best use of people, just leave everything to us.”

Sessler also agreed, “Jenny is right, Linley …… you are our flag. In the Domain of Chaos, a Jedi powerhouse has a very strong influence. Look at the Martial God, the Martial God he doesn’t care about anything even if he’s in the Martial God Mountain for a long time. But everyone understands! As long as the Martial God is around, then the O’Brien Empire will never topple.”

“My lord, in the future, you will be as useful to our forces as the Martial God is to the O’Brien Empire.” Barker said as well.

Linley nodded slightly, “I understand this, by the way, I went to wander around Black Earth City yesterday, and about tens of miles to the northeast of Black Earth City, there’s a small mountain called Black Wool Mountain. I’m going to cultivate there.”

Whether it was the Earth Laws or the Wind Elemental Laws, Linley felt their vastness, and Linley longed to spend a great deal of time immersing himself in them, properly sensing and absorbing them.

In a room on the fifth floor of a five-story hotel in a county city that housed hundreds of thousands of people in the south-central part of the Domain of Chaos, an old man with white hair was opening a letter and carefully reading through its contents.

“What a fear of what will come!” The white-haired old man’s brow furrowed, “The Pope, he ordered not to deal with Linley, just to keep watch. Some time ago, when I learned that Linley and his group had entered the Domain of Chaos, I thought that this Linley was traveling. I didn’t realize it was occupying a city. What exactly is he up to?”

The old man had a bad feeling in his heart.

Linley, a great enemy of the Illuminati, an enemy they were unwilling to deal with.

But now ……

“I hope that this Linley is just here to play around in the Domain of Chaos.” This old man’s brow furrowed, his greatest fear was that …… Linley had come to the Collar of Chaos specifically to deal with the Illuminati, “We don’t want to mess with him, but if he has to mess with us, we’ll have to make a move.”

As a high-ranking figure of the Illuminati in the Collar of Chaos, the old man was well aware of the strength of Linley’s side.

“As for now, we can only monitor and see what this Linley is up to.”

Outside of Black Earth City, on a hill with a height of more than a thousand meters in the direction of the Forest of Darkness, Linley was sitting cross-legged on the canopy of a large tree, and as the wind blew, the canopy’s branches and leaves shook, and Linley’s entire being shifted slightly just like the leaves.

He was also carrying a heavy sword on his back.

Carrying a three thousand six hundred pound Black Yul heavy sword on his back, and still being able to sit on top of the tree canopy. With regards to wind control, Linley had indeed reached an extremely high point.

“This slowness and extreme speed, it’s not that simple.” Linley was constantly demonstrating the ‘Rhythm of the Wind’ move in his mind, the Rhythm of the Wind, which was actually the perfect presentation of the two forms of the wind in a single move, with diametrically opposed aeons causing air blades to appear on the blade of the sword.

But Linley realized that slow, extreme speed had its own amazing aspects when studied singularly.

“Slow Upanishad to the extreme, extreme speed and swiftness the ultimate in research …… “Linley was completely immersed in his comprehension of the elemental laws, a comprehension that was entirely by virtue of a flash of illumination, or a sudden realization of one of the truths of the laws of the earth, and Linley would go and study the laws of the earth. Suddenly realizing a truth about the Laws of Wind, Linley would also go and comprehend it.

The days of bitter cultivation and comprehension in Blackwool Mountain passed quickly ……